Example sentences of "[pron] had [be] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 I was becoming an old hand by now ; I was n't nearly as nervous as I had been the other times , even though the audience was twice the size .
2 Charges that there had been no good times in England since William came in , or that William had ruined the nation , were fairly common .
3 There had been a long time when he had been surrounded by wire and bars .
4 She did not know what sort of oddness to imagine , but they had been a long time and there had been peculiar noises .
5 For the Black Dwarf , that June , celebrating a year of publication , it had been a rocky time , financially and politically .
6 It had been a long time living in a hole in the ground , let's hope things get better .
7 It had been a long time since we last saw one of those , so we bought ice cream , sat in the sun and wrote postcards at the Reykjahlid shop .
8 It had been a long time since he had felt like that .
9 It was a dream , it had been a long time since Hari had seen her mother smile for the death of her husband had knocked all the spirit out of Win Morgan .
10 Because of the ancient feud with the Dwarfs , it had been a long time since any High Elf had set foot on the Old World .
11 It had been a long time since anyone had enjoyed rubbing cream into her back .
12 She reached for her silk dressing gown and pulled it on ; she felt good , it had been a long time since she had awoken feeling so alive .
13 It had been a long time since she had had to stop herself simply blowing away an enemy that she found herself unable to either maim or restrain .
14 It was for a party in one of the upstairs rooms , but it had been a long time ago .
15 It had been a long time since I — ’ He broke off .
16 It had been a long time since she had felt this way .
17 It had been a long time ago and the jungle had reclaimed its own .
18 It had been a long time since she 'd laughed , joined in a joke , been silly just for the hell of it .
19 It had been a long time since she 'd met anyone even remotely interesting , and whatever this man was he certainly was n't remote !
20 Ahead , on a right-hand bend , was the farm , but it had been a long time since a chicken had shat in that yard .
21 It had been a long time since the mental barrier between herself and the watching audience had been broken …
22 He thought again about his parents , but it had been a long time and he became angry with himself because he could no longer picture their faces like before .
23 It had been a difficult time for everyone , but especially Diana , who was perhaps closest to her father of all the children .
24 ‘ If it had been a different time you 'd have been a doctor or an engineer , ’ Rose said .
25 It had been a harrowing time .
26 He felt that he had been a long time away .
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